What a treat it was to see those last four skate- magnificent skating skills throughout, great programs, and clean for jumps- I don't think I've ever seen four consecutive short programs of that quality.

It was great to the men skating so well. Is this the first Grand Prix event this season without falls?

I had to refresh my feed and only watched the last half of Kozuka's program, can anyone tell me what happened?

Kozuka had two minor errors, he struggled alittle with the exit from his combo, the 3 Lutz was fine but not enough speed and his following 3 t oe had hard time to hold on to his edge coming out, not a 3 turn but close to it, so he lost some GOE's there and he also hit the board on his straight line footstep end , losing slightly his balance, two bobbles which probably counted for about 3-4 points.

This competition was tops in its Field. There were six Men determined to do their best. Some did; some didn't, Why on earth anyone would consider them to go through a Nationals is beyond my way of thinking. The 3 Japanese Men are the best selection for Japan.

Chan's beautiful skating was not marred today and if he can keep it up at the LP, he is a contender.

Tomas and Florent have seen better days, but what they did do was top notch.

I missed the Americans, Joubert and Brezina but there's time. I hope Brezina is able to skate.

The LP should be a humdinger. This is a first class international cometition.

Oda was on fire. Both Daisuke and Taka had odd stumbles and some other little quality problems. Patrick's 4T was not as good as he had so 3T was tacked on to 3F. His jumps are all preceded with footwork so the combo can be made out of any of them without concern of not having all required jumps. Couldn't see well on computer stream but I believe he does one foot footwork into his 3F.